Vietnamese Student Union Protests Repatriation Legislation

The University of California at Los Angeles' Vietnamese Student Union held a protest last Wednesday in response to the U.S. and Vietnamese Repatriation Agreement, enacted in late January, directed at Vietnamese residents in the U.S. Under the legislation Vietnamese residents will be deported if they arrived on or after July 12, 1995 and received an order of removal because of criminal offenses. President of the Vietnamese Student Union said that many of these Vietnamese residents could be deported on minor criminal offenses, such as writing a bad check – crimes most of them already served time for.